Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he... More > coined.
In this ebook:
The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night
The Beautiful and the Damned
This Side of Paradise
Flappers and Philosophers
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Complete Pat Hobby Stories
Collected Stories< Less

This title is a collection of 45 novels and short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's short stories have themes that do not only relate to the problems and culture of the Jazz Age, but were... More > also about the promises and despair encountered by the youth, as well as aging. Love and relationships between two mismatched or unlikely characters are common, such as people who are unlikely to develop a spark of romantic interest between each other.
The plots are usually set in the culture of the upper middle class and the elite, with characters either from this social group or aspiring to become part of it. Being inspired by the events that occurred during The Great Depression and the stock market crash, the stories also involve characters who lose wealth, but who are still trying to maintain their opulent lifestyle.
However, Fitzgerald's stories will remain relevant no matter which era the readers are born into.< Less

Published in 1920 by Charles Scribner's, This Side of Paradise was Fitzgerald's first novel to go into print and was reconstruction of an earlier story called The Romantic Egotist. The plot deals... More > with life in America after the First World War and in particular the romantic experiences of the lead character Amory Blaine who finds that social upbringing and, more importantly, money can have an impact of finding and holding onto the women he falls in love with.
This Side of Paradise is very much the autobiographical first novel with Amory Blaine taking the part of Fitzerald in his attempts to seduce and marry first Isabelle Borge and then, when that doesn't work out, Rosalind Connage. Both female characters were based on women the author wanted, indeed, following the book's success, he was able to marry the second; in real life, Zelda his subsequent wife.< Less

Published in 1922 by Charles Scribner's, The Beautiful and Damned was Fitzgerald's second novel. The plot concerned the relationship between Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria, taking in an element... More > of Patch's army service, and Gloria's alcoholism. If there is a theme, it's concerned with creating a purpose in life besides the more selfish obsessions such as money and hedonism. That the Patch's don't find such a purpose gives a sufficient clue to their fate.
There's more than a whiff of the autobiographical about the novel, but in dealing with the Jazz Age as a theme (of which Fitzgerald was a constituent part), it takes in a more social element. Despite not being received on quite the level as his first novel, the initial print run of twenty thousand was extended to produce a first edition totalling some fifty thousand.< Less

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality... More > of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. (Source Wikipedia)< Less

Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of... More > his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
Several of the stories had also been published earlier, independently, in either The Metropolitan, Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, Chicago Tribune, or Vanity Fair.
All of these stories, like his best novels, meld Fitzgerald's fascination with wealth with an awareness of a larger world, creating a subtle social critique. With his discerning eye, Fitzgerald elucidates the interactions of the young people of post-World War I America who, cut off from traditions, sought their place in the modern world amid the general hysteria of the period that inaugurated the age of jazz.
"Amusing, interesting and well done. . . . Each piece is polished."—New York Times< Less

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